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Chancellorsville
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
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a village of Spottsylvania county, Virginia, U.S.A., situated almost midway between Washington and Richmond. It was the central point of one of the greatest battles of the Civil War, fought on the 2nd and 3rd of May 1863, between the Union Army of the Potomac under Major-General Hooker, and the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia under General Lee. (See American Civil War, and Wilderness.) General "Stonewall" Jackson was mortally wounded in this battle.
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Chancellorsville'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/c/chancellorsville.html. 1910.
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Chancellorsville'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/c/chancellorsville.html. 1910.
